Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McCarthy, who once told a friend that in his dying hour he would hope to fix his mind on some image of personal glory, might have judged himself a failure in the last twelve months of his life. For in Joe McCarthy's mind, "to do something" meant only one thing: to push himself to power amid the cheers of the crowd. And having pushed himself too far, too fast, too ruthlessly, he fell near to oblivion and a restless frustration that his close friends say contributed to his last illness...
With this estimate Walter Reuther took angry exception. Cried he: "Our present inflation is a rigged inflation based on prices arbitrarily set by a handful of executives of the major corporations who fix prices to maximize their profits rather than production and employment." Even ex-Socialist Reuther knew better than that. But what was encouraging in the hassle was that both management and labor-each understandably edgy about the rising criticism of the upward spiral-were so anxious to defend their positions before the public. From such edginess could come a new caution which ultimately should benefit management, labor...
...thought taxes too high, the polltakers discovered that most citizens thought they should be reduced only slightly in lower-income brackets, e.g., from the present $65 to $60 for a family of four with $3,000-a-year income. Asking people in all brackets to fix a theoretical tax on the high-income man, Gallup found overwhelming sympathy for the big taxpayer: e.g., the public would lower the income tax on $50,000-a-year-with-four-exemptions incomes from the Government's $18,294 to about...
...chronometer which allows for the earth's rotation, exact readings of a plane's (or missile's) latitude and longitude are made, then translated into instructions for the servomechanisms that operate the controls. (A variant of this layout, not described by Draper, uses similar gyros to fix position, radios continuously back to home base for flight instructions.) Throughout the flight, the control system also operates like a normal automatic pilot, making necessary minor corrections for pitch, yaw and roll...
...accidentally' leave a five-dollar bill on the seat beside the inspector."* Recounting one attempt by a New York lawyer "to put money into his pocket and mine that should have gone to my employers," Coulter insisted: "Seldom a week goes by without someone offering a 'fix...